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Oct 28, 2013
Armed Political Organizations
From Conflict to Integration
Summary
Benedetta Berti is the author of Armed Political Organizations: from Conflict to Integration (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013). Berti is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and a lecturer at Tel Aviv University.
The book investigates the inner workings of three organizations: Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Irish Republican Army. Berti's intricate research reveals the history and institutional components of each group beyond what we have come to accept about each. These are organizations that have used violence and military strategies, but also have social service wings that provide education and public health programs. Over time, each adopted increasingly political aims and the mechanisms to participate in elections. Berti's claims that changes in political opportunity structure help explain the timing of these moves into electioneering.
The findings from this comprehensive book can advance comparative politics scholarship on armed conflict and social movements, but also should be read by public administration and organizational theory researchers.
